August 6, 2011 in Sports Age is the great MacGuffin of minor league baseball, driving the plot of each prospect until the necessary payoff at the upper end: Can he play or not? The younger …

August 6, 2011 in Sports ANAHEIM, Calif. - Blake Beavan pitched in and out of trouble through eight impressive innings, Trayvon Robinson hit his first major league homer in his second game up from Triple-A, …

August 6, 2011 in City The father of Spokane bombing suspect Kevin W. Harpham was injured today in a motorcycle accident in Cusick, Wash. 3

August 6, 2011 in City One man is dead and another was hospitalized after a single-car rollover crash this morning southeast of Cheney. 1

August 6, 2011 in Sports Jeremy Pargo’s goal hasn’t changed, just the route to get there. And he doesn’t mind the path he’s been on since completing his eligibility in the Gonzaga men’s basketball program …

August 6, 2011 A man who was injured in an accident earlier this month died Friday at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center.

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World, News KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents shot down a U.S. military helicopter during fighting in eastern Afghanistan, killing 30 Americans, most of them belonging to the same elite unit as the … 30

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World, News KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A military helicopter crashed in eastern Afghanistan, killing 31 U.S. special operation troops and seven Afghan commandos, the country’s president said Saturday. An American official said … 20

August 6, 2011 Here’s the full poem Shawn Vestal talks about in his Aug. 6, 2011 column.

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A1 WASHINGTON – The nation added 117,000 new jobs last month and the official unemployment rate dipped fractionally, but the underlying data of the latest government report provided more evidence of … 18

August 6, 2011 in City on Page A1 Chuck Hennessey – Spokane’s best-known funeral director – took the advice he gave families during his 56 years in the business. He preplanned his funeral down to the smallest detail. … 5

August 6, 2011 in Business on Page A1 State regulators closed the Bank of Whitman on Friday night and sold the Colfax-based lender’s deposits and some assets to Columbia Banking System of Tacoma. The deal shutters 12 branches … 6

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A2 CHICAGO – Myrtle Rose was taking a short flight over suburban Chicago when the 75-year-old aviation enthusiast looked out her cockpit window to see two F-16 fighter jets. She assumed … 4

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August 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 NEW ORLEANS – A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former New Orleans police officers of civil rights violations in one of the lowest moments for city police … 2

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 WASHINGTON – Aided by the shrinking troop requirements for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Army is cutting the current yearlong deployment tours to nine months for most of …

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 BEIRUT – Syria’s government showed off TV and still images of burned buildings and rubble-strewn streets empty of people in Hama, the epicenter of anti-regime protests, and claimed Friday it …

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A3 OSLO, Norway – A polar bear attacked a group of British students camping on a remote Arctic glacier as part of a high-end adventure holiday, killing a 17-year-old boy and …

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama signed a temporary funding extension for the Federal Aviation Administration on Friday, ending a two-week impasse that left the agency in a partial shutdown. The …

August 6, 2011 in Nation/World on Page A4 WASHINGTON – The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration has acknowledged to congressional investigators that her agency provided a supporting role in the ill-fated Operation Fast and Furious run by … 2